In 2005, Lee starred in the film Legless for Red Productions and Channel 4 but it was to be his role as gay teenager Josh Jones in the television drama series Hollyoaks: In the City the following year in which proved to be his breakthrough.
Lee then went on to star in Wired for ITV1, Gemma Factor for BBC Three and Exhibit A, a feature thriller by Bigger Pictures/Warp Films.
He had a recurring role in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Pearl Ladderbanks grandson Owen Hartbourne (currently offscreen living in Hong Kong).
Other TV work includes an adaptation of Kate Long's The Bad Mothers Handbook, where he played Paul, the boyfriend of Holly Grainger's character, who gets his teenage lover pregnant.
The film has an independent budget[citation needed] and cast includes Lee Battle, Nico Mirallegro, Linzey Cocker, Marcquelle Ward[3] and Tina O'Brien.